"Director Lin, I would like to ask, where did you get this VCD?"
Hearing Yang Jianguang's question, Lin Hongbiao, who was looking at it with great interest, casually replied, "Oh, you are talking about those VCDs on the ground. They are made in our factory. If you want, you can get one for four...three thousand five hundred yuan."
for you."
"Okay, let me take a look first."
After greeting Lin Hongbiao, Yang Jianguang also picked up a VCD and slowly looked at it.
This black VCD is a bit heavy to begin with. It has a rectangular shape. On the left and right sides are volume rotary buttons, fast forward and slow forward buttons, and in the middle is a simple disc tray.
Yang Jianguang fumbled for a long time, but couldn't find the button to open and close the disc tray. Finally, he discovered to his embarrassment that the disc tray of this thing had to be pulled out by hand.
Although the functions are extremely crude, it is already much more advanced than ld players and video tapes.
Yang Jianguang fiddled with it with great interest for a while, then stood up excitedly and asked.
"Director Lin, are there any discs and monitors around here?"
Lin Hongbiao was looking at it very enthusiastically. He couldn't think of talking to Yang Jianguang and said casually without looking at him.
"The disc is on the cabinet, and there is one on the corner of the monitor. You can look for it yourself."
Following Lin Hongbiao's guidance, Yang Jianguang soon found a stack of discs on the counter, but the content inside was very simple, and there was a large Leopard logo on the box.
The monitor that Lin Hongbiao mentioned was not found, so Yang Jianguang simply borrowed the color TV from the office and plugged it in.
He then opened a box of "Don't Lose Your Ambition" sung by Twelve Beauties and put it into the VCD.
Soon, the sound of disc reading began, and the color TV screen gradually began to display images.
The golden leopard logo flashed past, and what you saw was twelve hot beauties wearing various bikinis standing in a row, twisting and turning on the stage to the singing.
"Looking at you, you look like you are drunk, your eyes are wide open and slightly dim, I, A, you, A, you are a confidant, try your best to drink soju..."
The singing is as sweet as ever and is nostalgic. As for the dancing, I can only describe it with the phrase "Everyone dances his own way, but no one is convinced by the other."
And with such overly revealing clothing, Yang Jianguang suddenly understood why men of this era like to buy DVDs...
After listening to two or three songs in succession, Lin Hongbiao on the side finally finished reading the six-chapter novel and complained to Yang Jianguang.
"Brother Jianguang, why don't you update more."
Seeing Lin Hongbiao's resentful look, he almost locked him in a small dark room and coded words every day. Yang Jianguang hurriedly explained.
"Director Lin, ahem, it takes time to figure out the plot. I will send it to you next time when I come up with it."
"What do you call Factory Manager Lin? If you don't mind, you can call me Brother Lin from now on. Brother Lin will do the same."
Lin Hongbiao waved his hand and pointed to the VCD in the corner curiously as he spoke.
"I just saw that you are very skilled at playing with this VCD. What's going on? Are you interested in this thing?"
Yang Jianguang nodded and asked curiously, "Brother Lin, this VCD should be produced in our factory, right?"
As soon as he said this, Lin Hongbiao looked over in surprise, nodded quickly and asked curiously, "Jianguang, this is indeed made in my factory, but how did you tell?"
"It's very simple. Currently, the only VCDs officially on the market are Qianyan brand VCDs. Qianyan VCDs have been on sale since last year. As of this year, less than 2,000 units have been shipped out of the factory. Only these two thousand units have been sold by major domestic and foreign electronics manufacturers.
I bought it for research."
Having said this, Yang Jianguang smiled.
"Besides, even if you really go and grab these two thousand VCDs, there is probably no need to buy so many of them and pile them up here."
In fact, Yang Jianguang didn't say a word. Even if it were Qianyan's VCD, it should have Qianyan's logo on it.
However, after Yang Jianguang said this call, Lin Hongbiao's eyes were filled with something special.
Yang Jianguang gave himself a surprise. I didn't expect that he was not only good at writing novels, but he also knew so much about the VCD industry.
"Jianguang, you are a talented person. If you are interested, please come to Lin Ge's factory... It just so happens that the sales section chief position is now freed up. I can hand it over to you." Lin Hongbiao looked sincere.
If Lu Toyota knew that the position of section chief, which he valued so much, was so easily handed over to Yang Jianguang by Lin Hongbiao, he might be able to do something wrong for him.
"Haha, Brother Lin, you're welcome. I'm still in school and it's not convenient for me to go to work for the time being."
Lin Hongbiao still refused to give up and continued. "Which university are you going to...? I'll tell them and let you do an internship in our factory."
"Ahem, um...I'm still in high school."
As soon as these words came out, Lin Hongbiao suddenly twitched the corner of his mouth, looked at Yang Jianguang in disbelief, and exclaimed, "How is that possible!"
Isn't this nonsense?
From Yang Jianguang's conversation, to his familiarity with computers, his understanding of the VCD industry, and even the purchase of a thousand valuable Walkmans, it is not something that a high school student can have!
It wasn't until he read Yang Jianguang's ID card that Lin Hongbiao sat back down with a look of reluctance.
He is actually only eighteen years old!
He's just in high school, but he dares to come to the factory to buy goods and resell Walkmans to make money? He uses his love of novels to bring down Lu Toyota, which threatens him?
Monster!
Lin Hongbiao had a look of emotion on his face. On the side, Yang Jianguang pointed at the VCD curiously and asked,
"The factory has made so many VCDs, is Brother Lin going to sell them?"
Hearing this, Lin Hongbiao retracted his thoughts and nodded. "When Qianyan Company released the world's first VCD last year, I was very interested in it, so I went to find one to study."
"After spending hundreds of thousands of dollars, I managed to make this batch of VCDs."
Hearing this, Yang Jianguang's eyes lit up and he talked eloquently,
"Brother Lin, this is a good project.
"Now the entire VCD market is in an era of barbaric growth. The market structure has not yet emerged. If it is done well, it may be an opportunity!"
"By the way, how is your market share now?"
"What are you occupying?" Hearing this, Lin Hongbiao waved his hand angrily.
“People don’t recognize our products at all, and we can’t sell them in digital stores.
The cost price of my VCD is 3,500 to 4,000 yuan, while Qianyan only sells one for 5,000 yuan."
"It's been a month, and Lu Toyota just sold me one, and I got dozens of yuan to buy the disc."
Hearing this, Yang Jianguang couldn't help wiping his sweat. It seemed that the one in the Zhongfentou store was the one Lin Hongbiao said he had sold.
No wonder where did Lu Wei buy the VCD?
But when it comes to discs, Yang Jianguang is a little confused.
"Brother Lin, don't you make discs in your factory?"
In Yang Jianguang's view, Lin Hongbiao even made the most difficult VCD, but he didn't even make the disc.
Because burning a disc is quite simple, you just need to buy a CD burner and use an ordinary blank CD to burn the audio and video into it.
Hearing this, Lin Hongbiao shook his head,
"You're overthinking it. It's easy to record videos to a CD, and it's easy for me to buy a CD burner. But the key is that I don't have the copyright resources for the videos at all. It's expensive and troublesome to buy one, so I might as well forget it."
At this point, Lin Hongbiao let out a sigh, obviously unwilling to invest hundreds of thousands in VCD.
Before entering the VCD market, he was also ambitious and aimed at the VCD market.
Before the invention of the VCD player, the R series of LD video disc players occupied an absolute market share.
Compared with traditional video recorders, the definition of VCD recorders has been greatly improved, and in terms of the price of optical discs, it has a great price advantage over LD discs.
Therefore, from Lin Hongbiao's perspective, VCD will definitely surpass LD DVD players and become the mainstream of the market in the future.
But now even the simplest video source problem cannot be solved, and his ambitions have been completely shattered.
Lin Hongbiao gave up, but Yang Jianguang was a little unwilling.
He just tried it. Although the walkman made by Lin Hongbiao has simple functions, it has a good disc reading function and the video played is clear enough.
Moreover, Yang Jianguang knew that in just a few years, the Chinese VCD market would become extremely prosperous, with peak sales of Qianyan Company alone reaching hundreds of billions.
If you can get in while the market is growing wildly now, the profits will be countless.
After hesitating for a while, Yang Jianguang asked in a deep voice. "Brother Lin, why don't you lend me this VCD and let me try it out?"
"Are you going to sell it?"
Lin Hongbiao shook his head. It wasn't that he was careful, it was because there was no chance at all.
To put it bluntly, an unbranded copycat product like his costs only 3,500 yuan per unit. Who would buy it if it sells for 4,000 to 5,000 yuan!
"Jianguang, I'm not trying to scare you. No one wants this."
"Don't say it's you, even the owner of my digital store won't give it to me!" At this point, Lin Hongbiao was afraid that Yang Jianguang wouldn't believe it, so he patted his chest and said firmly.
"I heard that Qianyan is about to sell the third batch of goods to others, so we should forget about it as a copycat."
Unfortunately, Lin Hongbiao's persuasion didn't seem to have any effect. Yang Jianguang hesitated for a while. But he still mustered up the courage and insisted. "Brother Lin, I'd better give it a try. Three thousand and five units, right? I'll take one back and give it a try."
Is it a good sell?"
As he spoke, Yang Jianguang quickly counted 3,500 yuan from his inner pocket and handed it to Lin Hongbiao.
In fact, what Lin Hongbiao said was true, but the VCD market was so attractive that Yang Jianguang was really reluctant to give up just like that.
Besides, it is impossible to sell the Walkman in his hand forever. Lin Hongbiao’s copycat VCD is Yang Jianguang’s next attempt.
Seeing Yang Jianguang's persistence, Lin Hongbiao frowned at first, then suddenly thought of something and pushed the money back on the table.
"Forget the money, why don't we make a bet with Jianguang?"
"Um?"
"In this way, if you can sell this one VCD, I will lose. There are a total of twenty VCDs here, and I will sell them to you at the full cost price. I will make as many products as you want in the future."
Having said this, Lin Hongbiao paused, glanced at Yang Jianguang with a half-smile, and then said slowly, "But... if you can't sell it, how about I update the novel with ten chapters for you, Brother Lin?"
Seeing Lin Hongbiao's expression of determination that he could not sell, Yang Jianguang took a deep breath, stood up from his seat, and nodded solemnly.